#ultimate guitar

[fuckyeahvanhalen86-95]

Despite creating some of the finest rock n' roll of all-time, the relationship between David Lee Roth and the two Van Halen brothers was never smooth sailing. Especially judging from all the breakups, failed reunion attempts, and bickering back and forth in the press over the years.

And perhaps a foreshadowing of future events occurred the first time that Eddie and Alex Van Halen witnessed a live performance by their future singer back in the early '70s.

It turns out that the VH brothers' band at the time, Mammoth, was hired to play an outdoor show at a park, but cancelled upon finding out that there was a miscommunication between who was supposed to provide the sound system and lights. Somehow, Roth's then-band, Red Ball Jet, got word of this, and stepped in at moment's notice.

During a recent interview with Ariel Levy, Alex recalled the events that occurred that day. And how things could have easily turned not only ugly, but deadly.

"So we came back, and lo and behold, there's another band playing," Van Halen recalled (transcribed by Ultimate Guitar). "And we're going, 'Who was this?' It turns out it was Dave's band. So we're standing out there, not too happy about it all, but, 'What the hell? Let's just listen to the band.' A couple of the guys we knew, the Komora brothers, and I knew the bass player, and I knew the drummer. I just didn't know Dave yet."

Soon, a confrontation occurred, which seemed to escalate an already tense situation even further.

"So, in your infinite wisdom of having false courage with this, you walk up, 'Hey, man, what the hell are you doing here?' And push comes to shove. And the park guy got really pissed off, and he was a very muscular guy, and he starts pushing people around. And then some guy pulls a knife. Now it's not play time anymore, okay? Now, it's bigger time. 'Put the fucking knife away, pal.'"

Luckily, the police were summoned and order was eventually restored before any harm was done.

"And the guy, they got into it, they arrested him. But that was my introduction to Dave's band! I thought it was appropriate and fitting in the context of what rock and roll was doing at the time, which is causing nothing but trouble."

[fruity-phrog]

Ultimate Guitar knows what’s up

[agapi-kalyptei]

Pro tip: always abandon your basket

tl;dr When shopping online, the moment a site has your email address, they WILL desperately use it. Even if you already have a discount or affiliate link+discount: put stuff in your basket, look at the final price, and close the browser tab. A few hours later, there's a good chance you'll have an email with further discount. Got one for Distrokid some time ago.

Today I was browsing Ultimate Guitar - clearly an evil site, a hodgepodge of old code and user-generated content that they want to monetize. In good faith (their new owners run MuseScore, Audacity and Audio.com which is like a non-awful version of soundcloud) I decided to see what their awesome 80% discount is about. The product page doesn't explain well what does the Pro subscription give you, nor does it mention the price. I cave in, register, and see that they want to ask 65 EUR (after an 80% discount) for.... something? I still don't know what. I say no thanks. The immediately say "ok how about 85%?". Just like that. With one click, they dropped the price 15 EUR. I'm seething because it feels incredibly unfair to those people who paid more.

And yes, an hour later I got an email with a 90% discount offer. Apparently I can get "250,000 + HQ Tabs", "Tempo control", "Chord library", "Practice Tools" for... I guess 35 euro per year?

It's hard making money online. I get it. But hey, I just saved 35 euro on something I'm not buying.

[smallsies]

apparently, ultimate guitar doesn't accept tabs for unreleased songs - which, cool, whatever, but i know i've seen them on there before? & i've avidly used uguitar for years without ever running into this before ,, not a big deal by any means, just bizarre lol. i guess i won't be sharing them with the world

[ettiqu-rtz]

ultimate guitar is such a horrendous app. plus it’s so slow and constantly crashing. does anyone know of any (preferably free) alternatives?

[senormary]

why are lovejoy fans the worst people to write tabs for ultimate guitar 😭

those bitches will make up random notes and when you mention it they get mad and call you stupid

[tvsart]

Who doesn't love some big?

[str4berryg4shes]

This dude has no idea how to play the guitar

[fuckyeahvanhalen86-95]

The moment it was announced, The Best of All Worlds event immediately caught every guitar lover's attention. As if Joe Satriani playing Eddie Van Halen's parts wasn't enough of a fun idea, it's a quartet also featuring Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony, and Jason Bonham. Together, they hit the road on July 13, with a total of 28 shows up until the end of August.

There's also been a lot of ruckus online due to Joe Satriani's performance of Van Halen's "Mean Street" on The Howard Stern Show. However, we have no doubt that Satch has all the Eddie Van Halen parts sorted out, and we can hear that in these new social media posts on Sammy Hagar's channels.

The former Van Halen singer shared a few rehearsal videos where we get a small taste of what's it going to be like at their live shows. You can check out a few of these songs in embedded players below.

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[hellojuiceboxbaby]

Something about Charles Rowland just screams he’d want to learn drums.

[onymonch]

Confession

{ID - Two panel comic of Ibuki Mioda and The Ultimate Imposter from Danganronpa 2

Panel 1 : Imposter looks up into Ibuki's eyes with a worried expression, tenderly holding her hand. he says "My dear, Mioda. Before we Proceed as we are, I have something important that I have been hiding from you... I am not the real Byakuya Togami, I am merely an imposter."

Panel 2 : Ibuki bounces, lowering her head with a wide grin on her face. She lifts imposters hands up excitedly yelling "OH THANK GODS, Ibuki was starting to worry that she might have fallen head over heels for a stinky billionaire!!!!!!" END ID}

[makerofmadness]

time to settle this once and for all

Video with all versions, for reference:

[turnaboutsisterz]

love love or whatever usami was on about

[starrysharks]

the urge to make public character playlists for my little guys...